For RSD 2025 - 1983 Alternative Rock/ Goth LP - The heavyweight picture disc is issued in a sleeve with a large die cut centre to the front to display the disc within. Artwork continues at the interior section of the pocket. Disc held in a polythene inner bag. Hype sticker applied to the shrink-wrap. Copies may come with a second sticker displaying the War Child logo.
After recording one of their arkest albums, 1984's The Top, the Cure regrouped and shuffled their lineup, which changed their musical direction rather radically. While the band always had a pop element in their sound and even recorded one of the lightest songs of the '80s, "The Lovecats," The Head on the Door is where they become a hitmaking machine. The shiny, sleek production and laser-sharp melodies of "Inbetween Days" and "Close to Me" helped them become modern rock radio staples and the inspired videos had them in heavy rotation on MTV. The rest of the record didn't suffer for hooks and inventive arrangements either, making even the gloomiest songs like "Screw" and "Kyoto Song" sound radio-ready, and the inventive arrangements (the flamenco guitars and castanets of "The Blood," the lengthy and majestic intro to "Push," the swirling vocals on "The Baby Screams") give the album a musical depth previous efforts lacked